Whistling windmill toy



Sept. l2,y 1950 s. KALlsz 2,522,376

WHISTLING WINDMILL 'roY original Filed Jan. 1o, 1946 INVENTUR.

Patented Sept. 12, 1950 WHISTLING WINDMILL TOY Steve Kalisz, Chicago, Ill., assignorvto Stella Lakomski, Chicago, Ill.

Original application January 10, 1946, Serial No. 640,267. Divided and this application August 3, 1946, Serial No. 688,257

1 Claim.

provided with a whistle so that both noise and motion can be secured from the toy.

This application is a division of application S. N. 640,267, filed January l0, 1946, now abandoned.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of my improved toy with a, portion thereof 2 ing 58 the force of the air will be at a tangent to the air pockets and will cause the disc to be rotated in this manner.

In all of the constructions which have been described, the material employed for making the discs may be either paper, Celluloid, plastic or metal, cardboard or plastic being preferable due to its durability as well as its practicability for this usefby reason of its comparative lightness. The discs may be made in any suitable or desirable color, or a variety of colors, and advertising or other indicia may be placed upon the same, as desired. Also the tubes and mouthbrokeninto section to more clearly show other parts;

Fig. 2 is a plan sectional view taken on the lines 2--2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of another i'orm of the invention wherein a different type of air receiving cavity is shown; and

Fig. 4 is a plan sectional view thereof taken on the lines 4-4 of Fig. 3.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. land 2, I have shown the tube I with the mouthpiece I2 and whistle I4 provided with a plug 52 secured in the opposite end of the tube. The plug 52 is provided with ran axial bore 54 that communicates with a pipe 56 which extends at right angles from the same. An opening 58 is placed in the pipe 56 adjacent the closed end of the same. I provide a pivot pin 60 on the end of the plug 52 to position a disc 62. The disc 62 may have a plurality of triangularly shaped chambers 64 formed on its underface, the same being formed by a plurality of diagonal wall members 66 which have their openings toward the center of the disc and the points 68 arranged in their periphery about the edge of the disc 62. Thus in this construction when air is blown in the tube I0, it will pass out of the opening 58 striking the diagonal wall 66 at an angle Iand turn the disc 62. I have found by experiment with this construction that the ow of air against the inner points of the diagonal walls is a very eiective rotating power, and thus it is possible to effect a rotation of the disc by means of this construction by very slight blowing effort on the part of the user.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the tube I0 and plug 52 may be similar to that previously described. The disc 62--a, however, is provided upon its underface with a plurality of semi-conically shaped air pockets which have their openings facing the axis of the disc, so that when air is blown through the pipe 56 and emerges from the openpieces may be of' various colors, so that an attractive as well as an interesting and animated toy construction will result.

While I have illustrated and described a specific embodiment of the invention, and modication of the same, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications may be made in the exact details shown and I do not wish to be limited in any particular; rather what I desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A toy of the type described comprising a tube n having a mouthpiece at one end, a whistle in said mouthpiece, a plug member positioned in and closing the other end of said tube, a pin member extending axially forward from said plug member, a disc mounted for rotation on said pin member, said disc having a plurality of diagonally disposed walls on one side of the same, sets thereof forming triangularly shaped chambers with their openings toward the axis of the disc and the meeting points arranged about the periphery of said disc, a pipe extending at right angles from said plug member adjacent said disc, said pipe having a closed end, an opening on the side and a passageway in said pipe communicating with the interior of said plug whereby air blown through said tube passes out of said pipe opening to strike said diagonally disposed walls to rotate said disc.

STEVE KALISZ.

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